The Universal Basic Education Commission on Tuesday said it will unveil a new template for the disbursement of counterpart funding for Universal Basic Education, PUNCH ONLINE reports.

This is according to the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Aisha Garba.

Garba spoke at the interactive workshop with the State Universal Basic Education Boards in Abuja.

Garba noted that the Federal Government, through the Commission, recently had to realign the delivery of basic education in line with four strategic pillars to ensure increased access and quality education delivery in states and the FCT.

According to her, the pillars are “Expanding access to UBE especially for rural and underserved population; Enhancing Quality of teaching and learning nationwide; Strengthening accountability and effective use of basic education finances and Optimizing monitoring and institutional system for quality service delivery.

“Accordingly, the Hope Education Project of the present administration is a performance-based project for States that apply their resources for education judiciously, especially in achieving the four pillars.

“Consequently, this has necessitated the need to develop new templates that will enable SUBEBs to prepare work plans for accessing the UBE Intervention Funds in line with the four pillars as well as implementation of the New Hope Projects.”

The Deputy Executive Secretary, General Services of the Commission, Tunde Ajibulu while giving the welcome address said the realignment of the delivery of basic education necessitated the need to come up with new templates for the access of UBE intervention funds.

“Therefore, this interactive workshop on the New Templates is timely, and we expect you as the implementers of Basic Education in your various states to contribute positively and come up with workable templates.”